Daniel Chapter 8


 

The second prophecy of Daniel, “after that which appeared to me at the first,” is in two parts - the first part a vision Daniel did not understand and the second an explanation, or meaning, conveyed by the Archangel, Michael.

As we must go from what is known to what is not yet known, we should start from the meaning given by Michael then work backwards to the vision itself.

Our starting point is mathematical, being 2300 days. Again, as with Daniel 7, I paraphrase loosely and within my right of free speech.

These 2300 days represent both mornings and evenings, as Michael refers to the prophecy as "the vision of the evening and the morning." These mornings and evenings represent the rise and fall of an empire.

Michael refers to evenings and mornings in that order to show the period is symbolically one of darkness.

This tallies to a total of 4600 elapsed days from the beginning of the empire to its end.

The dark days of the Third Reich's era of fascism began on the day Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany and ended on the day of the signing of the surrender of Japan.

The timeline of that empire was as follows:

Hitler became Chancellor on 30 January 1933, the 1st day
                                       so  31 January 1033   is the 2nd day, and so on,

Therefore:        Jan          2 days
                        Feb        28 days
                        Mar        31
                        Apr         30
                         May       31
                         Jun        30
                         Jul         31
                        Aug        31
                        Sep        30
                         Oct        31
                        Nov        30
                        Dec        31    that is    335 days in 1933
                                                            365 days in 1934
                                                            365     "    "  1935
                                                            366 leap year in 1936 (divisible by 4)
                                                            365 days in 1937
                                                            365    "     "  1938
                                                            365    "     "  1939
                                                            366 leap year in 1940
                                                            365 days in 1941
                                                            365    "     "  1942
                                                            365    "     "  1943
                                                            366 leap year in 1944

and in 1945:        Jan        31 days
                           Feb        28 days
                           Mar        31    "
                            Apr        30    "
                           May        31    "
                            Jun        30    "
                             Jul        31    "
                            Aug        31    "
                           Sep           2 days, the 2nd of September the formal surrender of Japan.        

                                                 that is   245 days in 1945

The total number of days by this accounting is 4598 days or two days short of 4600.

Given we are talking of a global war, we should also account for the one day time difference across the international date line, both for the rises and the falls, another 2 days.

Looking now at the vision, this may be done from the frame of reference of Hitler, who was not German but an Austro-Hungarian born in Braunau am Inn.

In the period prior to the first world war the Austro-Hungarian Empire was a dual monarchy.

In the vision the first beast with two heads represents the Austro-Hungarian empire, the two heads representing that dual monarchy.

The directions in which this empire pushes are all directions except east because the Austro- Hungary empire included lands to the east within its umbrella of friendly territory.

The horn that flies across the face of the whole earth is not a local neighbouring country but a distant empire, in this instance the USA.

At the close of WWI, Austro-Hungary was occupied by the US but the president, Woodrow Wilson, was unable to persuade Congress to conclude a peace deal that would see his "Fourteen Points" accepted, in particular point 10. In this vacuum the Austro-Hungarian empire lost peripheral territory to neighbouring countries. Within its own borders there were formed four new republics that declared their independence - these being Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.

Of these four, it was Austria that produced Hitler.

This prophecy, then, predicted the first two world wars and specifically included the chosen people in the second. Michael refers to the prophecy as events that shall "befall thy people," a prophecy the hearing of which makes Daniel faint, after which he was sick "certain days" before he could resume the business of the king.

These events clearly include the Holocaust and are further referred to in the New Testament as occurring twice, predicting the recurrence of National Socialism without specifying where. But it does specify the time frame as "after... the first," so after the invention of the smart phone.


Stephen                                                                                           posted 27 September 2026

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 Stephen Butcher                                                                                                     sphlat@actrix.co.nz